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The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$74k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
29
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 34
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$3.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$69k39%
FY202329$78k31%
FY202222$56k36%
FY202134$118k53%
FY202028$102kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$148kReligion$65kHealth$45kYouth Development$33kArts & Culture$22kEducation$22kInternational$18kFood & Nutrition$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CA
NE
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Enrichment Center Inc$112,00051%
Movie Institute$23,69439%
Catholic Charities Inc$20,00020%
Broadway Dallas Inc$12,40040%
Grace$11,0004n/a
American Heart Association Inc$10,00020%
Mesa Global$10,0001n/a
Dallas Area Parkinson Society$7,50051%
Kids Matter International$6,50011%
Counseling for the Future Foundation$6,500322%
Show all 38 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Enrichment Center Inc: $112,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMovie Institute: $23,694 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCatholic Charities Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc: $12,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Area Parkinson Society: $7,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKids Matter International: $6,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCounseling for the Future Foundation: $6,500 over 3y, 22% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCome Read With Me: $6,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMe Squared Cancer Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gatehouse Corporation: $3,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFort Worth Hope Center the Hope Center: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $2,250 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAmy's Wish With Wings: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetColleyville Heritage High School Pantera Booster Club: $2,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStupid Strong: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSower of Seeds International Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoreto House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa of Tarrant County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Lions Camp Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStepping Stones Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSoupmobile Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNocona Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX26.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Celanese Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Southlake Chapter National Charity League Inc · Greater Keller Womens Club Foundation Inc · Southlake Women's Club Foundation · Norman M Kronick Fort Worth Foundation · The Graham and Carolyn Holloway Family Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation

How much does The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation give?
The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $74,132 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Religion (15%), Health (10%).
Who are The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Community Enrichment Center Inc ($112k), Movie Institute ($24k), Catholic Charities Inc ($20k).
Does The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Bnsf Railway Foundation, Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax.
Where is The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation based?
The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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